Honor Accorded P. J. Flaherty By Citizens Here
About 100 residents attended a testimonial dinner in the Castleton hotel honoring P. J. Flaherty chairman of the Johnson Bronze Co. for a plaque presentation and the opening of the companys new South Mill street office building. The event highlighted delayed 1944 plans due to wartime restrictions.
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Johnson Bronze Co
New Castle
P. J. Plaherty
Castleton Hotel
South Mill Street
Castleton
B 29 Bombardment of Japan Nears Completion Under Lemay
B 29 planes of the 20th Air Force will have dropped more than 125000 tons of bombs on Japan as Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay ends his tenure tonight. The strikes have burned 150 square miles of 32 cities and crippled war industries including oil and craft sectors, signaling a potential invasion-era vulnerability for Nippon.
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Guam
20Th Air Force
Japan
Curtis E Lemary
Lemay
Carl A Spaatz
U.S. Strategic Forces Air
New York
Los Angeles
Nippon
Jan
Far East Air Force planes report new toll on Japan
Manila dispatch says 35 Japanese ships were sunk or damaged on Sunday amid the third straight day of Far East air force raids. More than 500 bombers and fighters supported the attacks, causing heavy damage to Japanese homeland targets. Continued on Page Two.
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Manila
Japan
Dougla MacArhur
Stalin is Reported Indisposed. Attends Sessions Later
Potsdam July 31 Official sources said Generalissimo Stalin has been indisposed for two days and did not attend big three meetings. Molotov reportedly stood in for Stalin at Sunday and Monday sessions while Stalin received visitors and was advised not to leave his home. The illness described as a slight indisposition, possibly a cold, prompted questions about delays in the talks.
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Potsdam
Stalin
Molotov
Byrnes
Bevin
Civear Briftahir
United States
Jap War Losses In Three Weeks At Huge Total
Final Nimitz report on carrier air sea attacks in the inland sea area cites unofficial losses of at least 1,018 Japanese ships and 1,409 aircraft destroyed or damaged over 22 days. The tally includes 139 ships sunk or damaged and 292 planes, with prior notes of ships sunk and planes destroyed in recent strikes.
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Guam
Chester W Nimitz
Nimitz
Pa Newc Hosts Garden Commentary And Bat Watch
Mrs. George Lelenko of 19 Diharte Street attended a testimonial for P. J. Flaherty and inspection of Johnson Bronze Company’s new plant in New Castle. Glenn Wimner of Grove City joked about ridge iron bats and a lawn gathering featured a running bat count. A blue heron draws evening attention to a Walmo district pond.
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George Lelenko
Diharte
Street
Pa New
P. J. Flaherty
Johnson Bronze Company
Jeaders
New Castle
Glenn Wimner
Grove City
Mercer Grove Cis
Mr. Wimner
Walmo
Daily Weather Report for 24-Hour Period
United States weather statistics for the 24-hour period ending 9 am record a maximum temperature of 39 and a minimum of 66 with 4.8 feet of stage. One year ago on the same date the maximum reached 86 and no precipitation was reported.
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United States
Local Hospital names new administrator Jameson Memorial picks C Robert Youngquist
Roger W Rowland announces the appointment of C Robert Youngquist as administrator of Jameson Memorial Hospital effective August 1 He succeeds Dr Wayne W Bissell who resigns to head a Rockford Illinois hospital Youngquist 28 with three years in hospital administration comes from the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia where he was assistant administrator for two years after a year as administrative interne He was chosen from many applicants by a board committee and was noted for outstanding qualifications The board had planned this change for several months due to rising administrative duties
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C. Robert Youngquist
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Roger W Rowland
Wayne W. Bissell
Rockford, Hil
Youngquist
Protestant Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Rowland
Bissell
Island of Kyushu Bombed Again by 250 Planes
San Francisco dispatch reports Ins y Radio Tokyo said 250 fighter bombers attacked Kyushu for two hours. The attack targeted shipping mainly. Domei agency English dispatches noted 250 enemy planes had struck Kyushu yesterday and Okinawa based flying boats laid mines near Korea Strait and Kyushu coasts.
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San Francisco
INSY
Radio Tokyo
Kyushu
Domei Agency
FCC
Kyushi
Tokyo
Okinawa
Japan
Straits of Korea
Anniversary Tribute to Fred L. Rentz at New Castle News
A tribute at The Castleton hotel honors Fred L. Rentz marking 63 years of service to The New Castle News. Rentz joined as a printer's devil in 1882, rose to composing room foreman, plant manager, part owner and president, and received prior Distinguished Citizens Award recognition in 1938. General Chairman C. E. Smith Jr. presided at the Monday tribute dinner.
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P. J. Flaherty
Castleton
C. E. Smith Jr
Fred L. Rentz
New Castle News
Rentz
the News
Flaherty
State Health Secretary A. H. Stewart Dies in Harrisburg
A. H. Stewart, 65, state secretary of health, died of a heart attack at Harrisburg Polyclinic hospital. He served as deputy health secretary since 1939 and was elevated to the cabinet in 1942, surviving by a widow and three children. He was born in Plaimville Indiana county and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh medical school.
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Harrisburg
INS
A. H. Stewart
Harrisburg Polyclinic
Edward Martin
Stewart
Arthur H. James
James
John J. Shaw
Philadelphia
Martin
Plaimville
Indiana County
University of Pittsburgh
103Rd Medical Regiment
Pennsylvania National Guard
Japanese Fear China Invasion
Japanese fear Allied invasion of China rises as Domei reports all Japanese males over 14 in occupied China undergo strenuous training. The drills are described as so realistic blood is drawn to prepare for coastal landing operations.
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New York
INS
China
Jap Domei
Robbers Seize $111,300 From Bank Messengers in Bur bank Raid
FBI sought two armed bandits one wearing an army M P disguise after they halted bank messengers near Wilson Avenue and San Fernando Road in Burbank. Victors Lohn and Mhurston Afterson were bound and gagged before the robbers fled with six money bags from Hollywood State Bank toward Van Nuys.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wilson Avenue
San Fernando Road
Burban
Victor Lohn
Mhurston Afterson
van Nuys
Hollywood State Bank
Cold Winter Ahead Warning By Ickes
Secretary of the Interior Ickes warned that America faces the coldest winter of the war unless coal miners are released. He told the Senate wartime investigation committee the United States must ship coal to Europe to prevent bloodshed and defended sending coal abroad despite a domestic shortage. He also said restrictions on eastern mined coal for households may spread to other domestic coal types.
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Washington
Jly
INS
Secretary of Interior
Ickes
America
Senate War Investigation Committee
United States
Europe
Italian Fascist Slain In Court
Brescia reports say Ferrando Sorlini, a noted Fascist figure nicknamed the Hyena of Brescia, was fatally shot in a courtroom during his trial for Fascist crimes. A Carabinieri officer using a submachine gun carried out the shooting.
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Chiasso
INS
Bresica
Italy
Ferrando Sorlini
Carabinieri
Serlini
Dave
Motor Federation Seeks Limit on License Fund Use
Allentown March 3 The Pennsylvania Motor Federation executive committee met to outline a campaign urging voters to approve an amendment to limit the motor license fund fee. The Highway Department reported the fund totals exceed 100000 dollars. President Andrew Sorderm of Wilkes BarRe urged road bridge and street improvement plans for postwar traffic growth. PMF membership stands at about 205000 operators.
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Allentown
Pennsylvania Motor Federation
Highway Department
General Assembly
Andrew Sorderm
Wilkes-Barre
Sorderm
PMF
Chennault Honored By Chiang Kai-Shek
Maj Gen Claire Chennault chief of staff to the Chinese Air Force received one of China s top honors The Blue Sky and the White Sun at a dinner in Chungking with Chiang Kai Shek He had recently resigned as commander of the US 4th Air Force in China Camp Fithian two week Scout outing planned at Slippery Rock Creek Grove City.
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Chungking
Claire Chennault
China
Flying Tigers
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chennault
4Th Air Force
Death Record Notice for Charles Smith Conti Champ
Obituary brief lists ages and residences for Charles Marion Smith 74 of New Brighton Joseph Conti 74 of West Clayton Street and Joseph Champ 72 of R Dog.
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Charles Marion Smith
New Brighton
Joseph Conti
Til West Clayton Street
Joseph Champ
R Dog
Japanese In ? More Cities Get Warning
Twelve more in dustrial cities of the Japanese hone land were marked for destruction today as six B-28 boulders dropped thousands of tentlets warnizg the inhabitants that their homes would be burned out in the next ten days. The next list of doomed cities te get the second pre-strike waking in four days by Maj. Gen. Curtis FE Lemay Twentieth Air Porce y eluded Hakodate. heavily populated industrial center on Hokkaido, Ku rhine, on Kyi, and Mite. Hacchi- Oy, Maebashi Toyama, Nagaoka Nishiomiya-Mikage, Maizura, Otsu Fukyama and Nagaiarom Horu shin Kurume, Hakodake Nouxuoka Nehi Nowmiya and Mikkaichi were Welded it the list of eleven marked cites in the timee -warsing Sale 27 but were not bombed In the follow- INE MARES Paid when the Sunertoerrs hit Tsun, Aomori, Ichinomiya Ogaki Unvamada and Uwajima. These six cities were left in ashes by the first in the series of ad vertised raids, without the loss of a single B-29 A total of 720,000 leaflets contain Ceontinard on Page Two.
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Guam
Honeland
Ger
Curtis FE Lemay
Air
Chinese Forces Clear Kweilin After City Battle
Chinese troops pushed 14 miles north of Kwangsi province and cleared the southern suburbs of Kweilin. Weeks of heavy fighting left the surrounding areas in ruins as Japanese forces retreated toward an escape route along Lindhawn. An attack in Indo China was reported with further counter moves anticipated.
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Chungking
Kweli
Mustangs Hit Kobe Osaka Area In Naval Raid
Seventy first fighter command raids on Hans Island area report 25 to 30 Japanese vessels destroyed or damaged. Iwo-based Mustangs strafed and rocketed shipping and coastal targets at Hansahin, Himen, Kogogawa, and two factories. Locomotives destroyed, five small ships sunk, tanker set afire, 25 vessels damaged. three pilots shot down were rescued.
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HIAA
Kobe- Osaka
Hans Islane
Leahy Letter Mentioned At Petain Treason Trial In Paris
In Paris on July 3 a letter from Admiral William D. Leahy former U S ambassador to Vichy and now chief of state was introduced into the Petain treason trial. The letter to Petain was routed through Judge Mongibeaux though its contents were not released immediately.
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Paris
INS
Willliam D. Leahy
United States
Vichy
Statito
Truman
Henri Philippe Petain
France
Palaise de Justice
Petaineet
Admiral Leahy
Mongibeaux
Maxime Weve
Borneo Drive Progress Reported by MacArthur
Manila dispatch says General Douglas MacArthur reports steady attrition of enemy personnel and supplies on Borneo. Royal Australian Air Force heavy support aided ground assault as Allied troops push to drive Japanese from island airstrips and troop concentrations in the northwest sector.
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Manila
Qgen
Douglas MacArthur
Borneo
Wy Artors Ey
Ato Porce
Aten
Ishlund
Jeseli Amt
Weygand says France offered slight resistance to Allies
Gen Maxime Weygand testified that in 1940 Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan secretly agreed not to resist American forces in North Africa. He claimed French forces were compelled to surrender and that France faced a heavy price if North African ports fell to the Allies. Petain rose and thanked Weygand after the testimony.
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Gen. Weygand
Petain
Darlan
North Africa
Paris
Maxime Weigand
Peach Artie
Henr Philippe Pesslis
Agm
Jean Deirlect
Africa
Forres
Weygand
France
Fragmented OCR News Text About Weather and Elections
Fragmented text mentions weather, elections and town events with unclear phrasing. It references Queens and a town scene, but specific facts, names, dates, or actions are obscured by distortion. The readable fragments provide no concrete report or outcome to summarize.
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Hyatt
Robert Dehn
Beverly Pills
Cal Presbyterian Church
Miss Simms
Deieu Housing Corp
Los Angele
Ar East Air Force
MacArthur
By Robert G. Ninon
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Moloto
Curtis LeMay
20Th Bomber Command
Aomeri
Ogahi Tehhinomiya Tsu
Ujiramada
Abcoren LeMay
Strategic Air Forces
RB John Reo Henry
Rem
William F. Halsey
Japeti
PA Newc
Toa
Daily Weather Report
F. J. Rentz
State Secretary OF Health
Harrisburg Hospital
Pittsburgh
Insa Corone
Allen Stern
Stern
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Motor Federation
Slippery Rock
Boy Scouts
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Slipper Rock Creek
Saturda
Bulletin
International News Service
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Kweilin
Kwangsi Province
Indo-china
Chinte Kng
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Kobe-Osaka
Jima
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